Xenia is 14 years old, but she does not live the typical life of a teenager. Xenias's mother is a single mother, and her oldest daughter needs to help out: with the housekeeping, with a job delivering newspapers and with bringing up and looking after her younger siblings. All of a sudden Xenia has the opportunity of attending a private school, getting a degree and beginning her own life. She has difficulties letting go of her family and entering into relationships with other people. Will Xenia succeed in letting go of her past? The directors Anders Gustafsson and Patrick Book have accompanied their protagonist with a camera over the course of several years and thus allow for significant insights into the process of growing up. The immediacy of the film's montage transfers the audience directly into Xenia's realm of experience, and gives a moving and gripping account of the social mechanisms and and adaptive difficulties of adolescents.